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Russia is creating intermediate-range missiles, but will not deploy them unless similar US weapons appear in Europe, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov said. He added Washington is designing both missiles and "various exotic systems" with parameters banned by the Intermediate-range Nuclear Force (INF) Treaty which was terminated in 2019. Experts believe the arms race is inevitable now and will include a bigger number of countries, the Izvestia daily writes, echoed by TASS.
Robotization of ground forces has been of interest for the military of the world since the early last century. The development of technologies allowed implementing the idea only now. Growing military budgets in the past decade caused a landslide of artificial intellect projects and combat robots. The Izvestia writes about the current state of affairs.
In an interview on the Ekho Moskvy radio station on November 10, 2019, the deputy commander-in-chief of the Russian Aerospace Forces, Lt. Gen. Yuri Grekhov, noted that Russian air-defense systems are being upgraded to focus on UAV threats. In Syria, the Russian military has faced a number of attacks from crude UAVs rigged with explosives, which have caused damage to military installations, including those away from the front lines.
The art of sniping is more than just proper cover, concealment and sight alignment; it demands vigilant situational awareness, flawless timing and solid arithmetic skills. Sgt. 1st Class Shaiyla Hakeem explains on U.S. Army’s website.
Rosoboronexport actively participates in the Russia-Africa Economic Forum, which takes place in Sochi from 23 to 25 October, and coordinates the participation of Russian defense industry enterprises in it, the arms trader said.
Marine brigades of the Russian Navy will be reformed. Each one will get an additional four battalions, including a tank one. The heavy armor will help marines fight autonomously in any part of the world without any support from other arms of troops.
Battalions armed with TOS-1A heavy flamethrowers will be created in each Russian military district. Their main task will be to destroy enemy fortifications. The Russian military has long discussed the engagement concept of the flamethrowers although the weapon has been exported for many years. Only now has the TOS-1A found its place in the combat order. It has to burn the ground by thermobaric projectiles before an attack, the Izvestia daily writes.
The Russian 22nd antiaircraft regiment in Kaliningrad region will receive Tor-M2s by the end of 2019. They are the most perfect short-range air defense weapons in the world capable of downing any aircraft, drone or smart bomb with one missile. Experts believe Tor in the Baltic enclave is a response to NATO reinforcement in the Baltics and Poland, the Izvestia daily writes.
Most modern armies are switching to new wheeled hardware. Modern conflicts of the past 30 years and forecasts of experts about future wars advanced a set of requirements to it, the Izvestia daily writes.
As the Multi-Domain Task Force pilot program nears its end, the U.S. Army is now using lessons from it to establish three similar task forces. Sean Kimmons, Army News Service, reports.
The Russian armed forces are rearmed faster than planned, Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu said. The increase of the defense budget from 1.44 to 1.50 trillion rubles helped increase the share of new and upgraded arms to 68 percent. It means hundreds of additional weapons and hardware in the whole army. The Defense Ministry is sure to report 70 percent in 2020. The figure was set yet in 2013.
The Russian Defense Ministry launched an experiment to increase the effectiveness of missile troops and artillery. Besides the design of new weapons and the upgrade of available ones, a new staff matrix for battalions, regiments and brigades is drafted. The latest Center-2019 exercise tested the new artillery concept, the Military-Industrial Courier writes.
The creation of a new world order is accompanied by US and Western efforts to oust Russia from the zones of traditional interests and turn it into an ordinary regional power. Sanctions and pressure on Moscow aim at weakening and dragging it into the arms race. Preservation of strategic stability as the basis of economic growth and security becomes vital, the Military-Industrial Courier writes.
Presented Friday, September 27, in the Council of Ministers by Florence Parly, Minister of the Armed Forces, the 2020 budget for the Armies foresees an increase of the resources of € 1.7 billion, to reach € 37.5 billion. Modernization of major equipment, creation of posts, innovation: overview of the main lines of the Army budget for next year.
The robotization of arms and hardware is a breakthrough achievement of the 21st century which will exert a major impact on the concept and forms of engagement of the armed forces of the developed nations in the foreseeable future, the Military-Industrial Courier writes.
The Russian armed forces will soon get the first unit of long-range reconnaissance drones. The unit of the Western Military District will be armed with Forpost-R unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) which will be later replaced by Altius.
As the U.S. Army prepares to potentially allocate $8.6 billion toward its six modernization priorities in the fiscal year 2020, a senior Army leader said the service should recognize Soldiers' ongoing work in the Pacific. Joe Lacdan explains on U.S. Army’s website.
Soviet weapons which were supplied to nearly half of the world countries were actively engaged in dozens of wars and conflicts of the 20th century. Even after the Soviet collapse, many countries, even US allies, prefer to buy Russian arms. It is confirmed by arms trade statistics which put Russia second after the United States, the Army Standard writes.
Maintaining the New START (Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty) is a prerequisite for continuing the strategic security talks between Russia and the USA, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in an interview with the Izvestiya newspaper.
After the end of World War 2, the Arctic developed into a laboratory for Polar scientists and a zone of commercial fishing. It also offers the shortest route from the Atlantic to the Pacific. The situation began to change due to global warming, as the ice began to retreat 200-300 km from the shore and opened year-round navigation from Bering Strait to Murmansk. New hydrocarbon deposits were discovered in the Arctic, the Zvezda weekly writes.
Lt.Gen. Ivan Jones CB, Commander Field Army (CFA), has outlined his plans to rebalance the Field Army to ensure that it can compete with and defeat adversaries both above and below the threshold of conventional conflict. CFA described plans for rebalancing his command which will see changes to the structure of the Field Army’s primary formations.
